Word: portraited
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...start thumbing rides to anywhere. On one of these time-killing trips, Rauschenberg heard about the cactus garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino. He went there ?and found that the library had paintings in it, the first "real" paintings he had ever seen: Sir Joshua Reynolds' Portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse and Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy. These suave, bright ghosts of Georgian culture stupefied Rauschenberg. He had never in his life looked at a work of art as art, and the first thing that struck him was "that someone had thought these...
...would paint. He found some pigments and brushes. There was no privacy in the barracks, and to be seen painting would have provoked endless ridicule. One night Rauschenberg locked himself in the latrine with a scrap of cardboard on his knee and secretly made his first daub, a portrait of a Navy buddy. Thirty years later, he still thinks of that illicit first night as exemplary. "There always ought to be an element of secrecy, of criminality, about making art," he says. "But if you're successful, it's hard to maintain. We all get comfortable in the end. That...
...simplicity. Even the liberties he took in tempi and dynamics sounded authentic and convincing. Ives himself said of the Hawthorne, "It is not intended that the metrical relations...be held too literally." Louis Cooper was also excellent in his performance of the flute solo which unexpectedly concludes the final portrait of Thoreau...
...guilt and innocence, words and meaning. His characters miss being drawn to proper proportions--they are unevenly constructed, sometimes deep and sometimes shallow to the point of being like the cartoons Tyler complains he comes out with. Especially fuzzy is his ill-defined creation of Missy, a thin, shadowy portrait of a girl...
...away. The novel turns on Hood's discovery that Mayo's stolen painting really belongs to Lady Arrow. All action, Hood sees, is political and all politics, drama. This is true not only of the IRA's schemes but also of his own. In Van der Weyden's artistic portrait of a man of action, Hood had come to recognize his own face...